In more trouble for senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde, facing an Election Commission`s show cause notice for his poll spending remark, the Income Tax department has issued a notice seeking his explanation within a week.

Nitin Gadkari
today said his party would support the Women`s Reservation
Bill in the Lok Sabha as passed by the Rajya Sabha and sought
to play down senior party leader Gopinath Munde`s views on
sub-quota for OBC women.

Toeing a line different from that
of his party on the women`s bill, Gopinath
Munde has said that there should be quota for OBC women in
assemblies and the Lok Sabha and he will press his party to
take this view.

Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde was
on Monday detained at the airport to prevent him from leaving for violence-hit Sangli district to address a rally, prompting
protests by party workers who were baton charged by the
police.